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 \q and they abhor anyone who speaks with integrity.
 \q
 \v 11 Because you trample down the poor
-\q and take portions of wheat from him—
+\q and seize a tribute of wheat from him—
 \q although you have built houses of worked stone,
 \q you will not live in them.
-\q You have delightful vineyards,
+\q You have planted delightful vineyards,
 \q but you will not drink their wine.
 
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 \v 12 For I know how many are your offenses
-\q and how great are your sins—
+\q and how mighty are your sins—
 \q you who afflict the just,
 \q take bribes,
 \q and turn aside the needy in the city gate.
@@ -476,7 +476,7 @@
 \q and they will say in all the streets,
 \q 'Woe! Woe!'
 \q They will call the farmers to mourning
-\q and the mourners to wail.
+\q and those who know lamentation to wailing.
 \q
 \v 17 In all vineyards there will be wailing,
 \q for I will pass through your midst,"
@@ -534,7 +534,7 @@
 \q
 \v 1 Woe to those who are at ease in Zion,
 \q and to those who are secure in the hill country of Samaria,
-\q the notable men of the best of the nations,
+\q the notable men of the most important of the nations,
 \q to whom the house of Israel comes for help!
 \q
 \v 2 Your leaders say, "Go to Kalneh and look;
@@ -548,7 +548,7 @@
 \v 3 Woe to those who put off the day of disaster
 \q and make the throne of violence come near.
 \q
-\v 4 They lie on beds of ivory
+\v 4 They lie down on beds of ivory
 \q and lounge on their couches.
 \q They eat lambs from the flock
 \q and calves from the stall.
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-\v 9 It will come about that if there are ten men left in one house, they will all die.
+\v 9 It will come about that if ten men remain in one house, they will all die.
-\v 10 When a man's relative comes to take their bodies up—the one who is to cremate them after bringing the corpses out of the house—if he says to the person in the house, "Is there anyone with you?" What if that person says, "No"? Then he will say, "Be quiet, for we must not mention Yahweh's name."
+\v 10 When his relative or the one who burns him takes up the bones from the house—when he says to the person in the inner room of the house, "Is there anyone with you?" that person will say, "No one." Then he will say, "Be quiet, for we must not mention Yahweh's name."
 
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 \v 1 This is what the Lord Yahweh showed me. Look, he formed a locust swarm when the spring crop began to come up, and, look, it was the late crop after the king's harvest.
-\v 2 When they finished eating the vegetation of the land, then I said, "Lord Yahweh, please forgive; how will Jacob survive? For he is so small."
+\v 2 When they finished eating the vegetation of the land, then I said, "Lord Yahweh, please forgive; how will Jacob stand? For he is so small."
 \v 3 Yahweh relented concerning this. "It will not happen," he said.
 
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 \v 4 This is what the Lord Yahweh showed me: Look, the Lord Yahweh called on fire to judge. It dried the vast, deep water under the earth and would have devoured the land, also.
-\v 5 But I said, "Lord Yahweh, please stop; how will Jacob survive? For he is so small."
+\v 5 But I said, "Lord Yahweh, please stop; how will Jacob stand? For he is so small."
 \v 6 Yahweh relented concerning this, "This also will not happen," said the Lord Yahweh.
 
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-\v 10 Then Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, sent a message to Jeroboam, king of Israel: "Amos has conspired against you in the middle of the house of Israel. The land cannot bear all his words.
+\v 10 Then Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, sent a message to Jeroboam, king of Israel: "Amos has conspired against you in the middle of the house of Israel. The land cannot endure all his words.
 \v 11 For this is what Amos said,
 \q 'Jeroboam will die by the sword,
 \q and Israel will surely go into exile away from his land.'"
 
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-\v 12 Amaziah said to Amos, "Seer, go, run back to the land of Judah, and there eat bread and prophesy.
+\v 12 Amaziah said to Amos, "Seer, go, flee back to the land of Judah, and there eat bread and prophesy.
 \v 13 But do not prophesy anymore here at Bethel, for it is the king's sanctuary and a royal house."
 
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 \q so that we can sell wheat?
 \q We will make the measure small
 \q and increase the price,
-\q as we cheat with false scales.
+\q as we cheat with deceitful scales.
 \q
 \v 6 This is so we can sell bad wheat, buy the poor with silver,
 \q and the needy for a pair of sandals."
@@ -701,7 +701,7 @@
 \q
 \v 10 I will turn your festivals into mourning
 \q and all your songs into lamentation.
-\q I will make all of you wear sackcloth
+\q I put sackcloth on all loins
 \q and have baldness on every head.
 \q I will make it like mourning for an only son,
 \q and a bitter day to its end.
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-\v 1 I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said, "Strike the tops of the pillars so that the foundations will shake.
+\v 1 I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said, "Strike the tops of the pillars so that the thresholds will shake.
 \q Break them in pieces on all of their heads,
 \q and I will kill the last of them with the sword.
 \q Not one of them will get away;
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 \v 3 Though they hide on the top of Carmel,
 \q there I will search and take them.
 \q Though they are hidden from my sight in the bottom of the sea,
-\q there will I give orders to the serpent, and it will bite them.
+\q there will I command the serpent, and it will bite them.
 \q
 \v 4 Though they go into captivity, driven by their enemies before them,
 \q there will I give orders to the sword, and it will kill them.